Researchers from Durham University excavated the extraordinary site after metal detectorist Peter Heads first stumbled across the discoveries in 2021, Ancient Origins reported. The sweeping cache ...

“I think it’s Iron Age,” said the caller, Peter Heads, an amateur metal detectorist. And then, no one said a word. Now, after more than three years of painstaking excavation, conducted in ...

The Melsonby hoard containing more than 800 artefacts was discovered by metal detectorist, Peter Heads, in 2021 in two ditches near North Yorkshire village of the same name. Heads reported the ...